Unexpected Love

Scars

Imagine these scars on Viktor's face.☝️

Viktor Anderson

Standing here and looking around made me proud. I had never felt proud of my office or my home and the cars that I owned with hard work, but this made me stand tall with pride. My manufacturing unit, that made 'n' number of safes, vaults and security systems. All the noises of metal and hammer, machines and humans, fire and water, made blood in my veins to run at soaring speed,

My life was never easy, I had been struggling to survive right from the childhood. From abused childhood, distraughted teenage and hardworking adulthood. But I had taken them as challenges and faced it with vehement. I thought I had won everything in the world when Jenny came in my life, she came like a fresh air in my suffocating situation, but she broke me beyond repair. Our love was so shallow, that few scars destroyed it. She left me because my face was ruined during one of the mission. When she ran away screaming after she looked at me, she took everything with her, my confidence, my faith, my spirit. I had sworn never to trust a girl and never to give your happiness in the hands of others.

To reach at this stage of my life, I had sacrificed lots, I had made myself a working machine. All I had was a brother, my chosen brother and my chosen family. Building this empire from scratch was not easy. I had no godfather nor any bank balance. I was....

I was interrupted by someone who bumped into me from behind. And who else that could be... Ms Jia Davis. This girl...

I turned around to look at her, but she was not aware at all that her highness had bumped into someone and needs to apologize...on contrary, she was looking with awe in her eyes at all the surroundings.

"Woah, this is such a huge place, I have never been to any workshop like this one" she said, and it made my chest swell up a bit.

"This way sir" said Henry, my workshop manager, leading the way to the vault.

When I stood in front of the vault, I was proud of my team of engineers and scientists. It was a cylindrical walk in room that had retina scan, palm scan and digital password.

Henry asked me to do the honors as he had fed my details. I stood on the stand and my eyes were scanned, then I placed my palm on the digital pad and at last typed the digits. It was the date, date that had turned my life, it was turning point of my life as it helped me to start this business and helped me see...the real face of .... Jenny.

Door opened and we all stepped inside.

"As you see, sir, your brilliant idea has materialized. These shafts release poisonous gas" he said pointing at the shafts at the ceiling "and this small holes here release water that starts filling the unit and the person who got trapped inside for attempting to break-in will be dead long back, before the alarm is switched off." He said showing holes at top of the walls

"All these systems are connected with motherboard that is situated on the backside." We went out to look and Henry closed the door, as we turned around, there was a huge thumping from inside the vault, confused we went back to the front and heard the muffled voice of Ms Davis

"Help me.... let me out...." She was continuously banging on the door

Oh! God, did this girl get locked inside?

I scanned and opened the door, and soon she came out and hugged me. I was so surprised that I had my hands in air, not touching her a bit.

"I thought I will die." She said in broken voice and kept crying on my chest, I felt wetness on my shirt due to her tears.

"Well you are not dead, Ms Davis" I told her. Everyone was looking at her, Richard was worried too, but this girl was not leaving me. After some time she realized she was hugging me, she pulled herself awkwardly.

"Oh! I am so sorry sir, I messed up your shirt." She tried to straighten the crease with her hands rubbing on my chest. Her hands on me felt warm and tingly... I instantly grabbed her wrists.

"It's ok..." I let go of her hands, feeling weird. I had never been with any girl after Jenny, so this closeness was making funny things in my stomach.

Richard came forward and rubbed her arms consoling her
" Are you ok now" he asked gently. Her Highness nodded like a child. I rolled my eyes at her clumsiness.

It was almost noon by the time we finished our work and left for office. I was sitting at the passenger seat, Richard was driving, and Her Highness was sitting behind listening to some music.

When she first came in my office, I liked her, and she impressed me by not running away, looking at my face. I had seen some flinched, some gasped and some screamed looking at me. I avoided meeting people as their reaction made me uncomfortable. My face was destroyed, had scars and burn marks on it, but she had been unaffected by it. I thought she would be sensible and great to work with, even her academic reports were great. But ohh my goodness, I was sooo wrong. She must be the clumsiest person I had ever come across...hey, why am I even thinking about her?

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Here's a sneak peek in Viktor's life. More details will be shared in further chapters about him and everyone. All the characters have a past so stay connected to the story.

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